Baby Birdies
Song Sparrow Baby
Last Saturday during the Roger Tory Peterson Birding Festival we banded a recently fledged Song Sparrow with its father only a few inches from it in the net. This was my first nestling for the year and I know other babies will be found in numbers!
Song Sparrow Nest with Eggs!
Commonly the father bird will continue raising the fledged young as mother starts building a new nest and then she will incubate her newly dropped eggs. This helps with the timing in being able to fledge as many nestlings in one season as possible. I suspected this bird was about a week out of the nest. Ironically we found over at the CLDC banding station a newly built nest with 5 eggs in it! No doubt mamma has been busy in this situation also!
Song Sparrow Baby
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9 June 2009 at 9:28 pm
So cute! You’re lucky to get to do this on a regular basis!
9 June 2009 at 10:10 pm
Was dad worried as you banded its young?
What a beautiful nest..are those pine needles in the bottom?
9 June 2009 at 10:21 pm
I love babies birds.
I had a window strike today–a baby mourning dove. He sat there temporarily stunned (driving my one cat crazy), then shook his head, and took off–all ok.
9 June 2009 at 10:53 pm
Very cute! I like Song Sparrows. They sure are kept busy raising young.
9 June 2009 at 11:23 pm
Love the song sparrows!
10 June 2009 at 6:27 am
Sweet photos, that mama has been busy, just glad we human mamas don’t have to have babies like that!!
10 June 2009 at 7:16 am
aaawwww isn’t it sweet. We have song sparrows nesting around close. The parents feed in the garden.
10 June 2009 at 7:45 am
So sweet, Tom!! Awwww!
10 June 2009 at 6:50 pm
Aww. And the eggs are really beautiful too.
11 June 2009 at 9:03 am
Great photo of the baby bird. The nest is beautifully made.
11 June 2009 at 10:44 am
Such a cutie pie!
11 June 2009 at 12:31 pm
Lots of baby birds around this week! You are so lucky to see them so close and personal.
11 June 2009 at 2:35 pm
Love looking at your blog…so much inspiration for my pottery! Can’t get enough baby birds!
26 June 2009 at 6:35 pm